AL-Salman, Huda Adnan2022-05-182022-05-1820151302https://drepo.sdl.edu.sa/handle/20.500.14154/3822Abstract Negation as a language universal formed a hot and controversial topic for scholars from the fields of logic, psychology and linguistics. Extensive body of research focuses on its syntactic aspects, but its semantics are mostly ignored. In this thesis, the researcher investigates this phenomenon. The specific aspect under investigation is the acquisition of the semantic functions of negation via literary textsenThesis